China Radio International’s Tamil service completes 50 years

• The CRI Tamil service was founded in Aug 1, 1963, and has expanded its operations on a multimedia communication platform with a mixture of shortwave broadcasting service, FM service, website, mobile and magazine services.

• The service at present provides eight hours of programme everyday which included four-hour shortwave service and four FM service broadcasts from Colombo.

• The Tamil service like the Hindi and Bengali services are mostly run by the Chinese students who have learnt the languages in the Peking University, which runs language courses in vast number of foreign languages. They are assisted by expert broadcasters from the respective areas.